As it turns out, cockatoos released into the wild can teach human language to other birds

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Cockatoos are one of the breeds of birds, like parrots and macaws that have the ability to mimic sounds, including human speech. But what’s unexpected is that it turns out that cockatoos who had been living with humans and then either escape or are released into the wild will, provided they survive, teach bits of human language to their offspring.

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